Staff Writer @NewYorker. Author of FUTURE SEX (2016), NOLLYWOOD (2017) and HEALTH AND SAFETY (2024).
Joined September 2008
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Mar 24
Health and Safety is out today in paperback! Thanks to everyone who has read and supported the book 💚
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I like this section of The Thinking Machine because it feels like @stephenwitt has chosen this analogy specifically for @embot
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May 28
“Mindlessly hedonistic, snobbishly insular, and punishingly cliquish though it might seem (and is), the booming Bushwick club scene has lately drawn the attention of ‘serious’ writers and thinkers.” New online: @comradesanchez on rave writing. nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
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Apr 27
The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates.
We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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Apr 22
“People said that he was an avid philologist, and had a giant file devoted to the word ‘dust,’ and believed that it was imperative to learn Anglo-Saxon.” From Issue 11: Emily Witt on J. H. Prynne. nplusonemag.com/issue-11/ess…
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Apr 21
Track playing in the ambient room when a dude on the internet thinks the heads have never heard of Sheltering Sky youtube.com/watch?v=UyK1VYUY…
Apr 20
I wonder how many people watching Sirat caught this reference to the Sheltering Sky (the book!).
Both incredible.
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Feb 4
When you start "the world's biggest bookstore" and buy a print publication but think encouraging a culture of reading is a waste of money and kill its books section.
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Jan 30
A Talk of the Town from an elementary school in Minneapolis newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Jan 25
Dispatch from my hometown, wish none of this had ever happened newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…
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22 Jun 2025
I wrote about ICE taking people off the streets of Los Angeles newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
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13 Jun 2025
In this week's RA Exchange, @NewYorker staff writer Emily Witt (@embot) discusses how to protect the underground, experimenting with drugs and her new book, Health and Safety.
Listen to the episode: ra.co/exchange/808
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11 Jun 2025
In L.A., is the military playing the role of an ordering force—or an occupying one? @embot reports.
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16 Apr 2025
Boston-area followers, there's a fundraising gala for the Altadena family I wrote about in January who lost their homes eventbrite.com/e/loren-benn-…
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25 Mar 2025
I wrote about Bernie and AOC in Tucson for @NewYorker
25 Mar 2025
At the “Fight Oligarchy” tour stop in Arizona, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hammered home a single message: the government has been taken hostage by a cabal of billionaires, and the only way to wrest it back is by unifying the working class. nyer.cm/etMPWlE
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5 Mar 2025
If you are near or at Columbia tomorrow at lunchtime, please come see Emily Witt (@embot) in conversation with Rivka Galchen (@rivkagalchen). Lunch provided! Non-CUID holders please email me today at my Columbia address to gain admission.
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19 Feb 2025
I'm so happy to share this news, especially because Isherwood is one of my favorite writers and one whose work was on my mind when writing Health and Safety.
19 Feb 2025
Today, we're excited to announce the honorees and finalists for the 45th annual @latimes Book Prizes!
To kick things off, we’re pleased to share that the winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize (@IsherwoodFdn) for Autobiographical Prose is Emily Witt (@embot). Congratulations!
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19 Feb 2025
Lots of gratitude to @latimesfob and @IsherwoodFdn —it's a very good time to revisit The Berlin Stories, Journey to a War, Christopher and His Kind, and all of Isherwood's writing.
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19 Feb 2025
I wrote about the executive order targeting gender transition care for minors and its effects in New York newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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19 Jan 2025
Our conversation with @embot about the LA wildfires, her latest dispatches for @NewYorker, and the prophetic work of Octavia Butler.
talkeasypod.com/emily-witt/
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